hey marissa, i saw the ask meme. would it be okay if i ask for rosie in number 2 (as a child)? baby moth. fuzzy caterpillar rosie. thank you for your time!
This ask got me really thinking as to how Rosie would grow as a child from caterpillar to moth! Rather than have a pupa stage, her moth features started growing in when she hit puberty, around 11 or 12. I did a lot of studies of greenstriped mapleworms, or the caterpillar stage of rosy maple moths, to base baby and child Rosie on. As she grows, her skin gains more stripes, those stripes get darker, and at 12, pink stripes start to appear on her skin. The pink stripes spread as she goes through adolescence, at 16, what’s left of her green stripes fade away as her new pink pigment takes over completely. You can also see the fuzz growing in on her antennae and around her neck at age 13, and her wings slowly grow in. At 16, her wings are almost finished growing in, and she’s able to start flying around that age. By 17 or 18, her moth transition is complete.
I based her prom dress at age 16 off of the rosy maple moth cocoon, a little reference to that stage in a moth’s life.
